HONR 311 - ON THE CONCEPT OF NETWORKS ACROSS DISCIPLINES

Institution:

Delaware State University

Subject:

Honors

Description:

The course reviews the concept of networking as explored in social psychology sociology of work and careers, neurobiology and communications. It examines the diffusion of information through social networks, adoption of new ideas, career placement through weak-ties and stimulation of new brain nodes. It includes movement science and exercise theory as ways of stimulating new brain growth and development.The course is an introduction to the academic study of network ideas from computer science and other scientific disciplines in which students will survey the principal thinkers, theories, and methodologies that have shaped this phenomenon. It has come to prominence through the idea of social networking and Facebooking, but the idea has had a long and storied history in science, mathematics and the history of ideas.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.desu.edu

Phone Number:

(302) 857-6060

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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